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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

People

José Antonio Chang age 1
Salomón Lerner Ghitis age 13
Oscar Valdés age 10
Carlos Ferrero age 18
Yawovi Agboyibo age 15
Du Yuming age 55
Su Yu age 52
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 59
William E. Simon age 32
Richard Kleindienst age 36
J. Howard McGrath age 56
Abe Fortas age 49
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal age 38
Paul Hasluck age 54
Shah Azizur Rahman age 34
Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo age 5
Chan Sy age 27
In Tam age 37
Bartolomé Blanche age 80
Caabi El-Yachroutu Mohamed age 9
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 23
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 67
Arturo Araujo age 82
Jean-Hilaire Aubame age 47
Herbert Blaize age 41
Diarra Traoré age 24
Alamara Nhassé age 2
Francisco Fadul age 6
Manuel Saturnino da Costa age 17
Edward Luckhoo age 47
Émile Jonassaint age 46
Vicente Mejía Colindres age 81
Adnan Pachachi age 36
Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif age 26
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi age 67
Faisal al-Fayez age 6
Abdelraouf al-Rawabdeh age 20
Apas Jumagulov age 25
Wilton G. S. Sankawulo age 22
Wanis al-Qaddafi age 35
Hussein Maziq age 41
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 20
Imbarek Shamekh age 7
Alfred Hilbe age 31
Tantely Andrianarivo age 5
Eugène Mangalaza age 9
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 58
Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani age 17
Soumana Sacko age 8
Kunio Lemari age 17
Andrei Sangheli age 15
Gheorghe Brega age 8
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 26
Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana age 74
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae age 48
Yon Hyong-muk age 28
Allan Louisy age 43
Idrissa Seck age 4 months
Allan Kemakeza age 11
Solomon Mamaloni age 16
Jules Sedney age 37
Bahij al-Khatib age 64
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 27
Yusuf Zuayyin age 28
Sabri al-Asali age 56
Guilherme Posser da Costa age 6
Frederick Sumaye age 9
Edward Sokoine age 21
John Malecela age 25
Orville Turnquest age 30
Clifford Darling age 37
Kléber Dadjo age 45
Tupua Leupena age 37
Koloa Talake age 25
Luis Giannattasio age 65
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 23
Esmon Saimon age 4
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani age 20
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 47
Bill Skate age 6
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 28
Yoo Il-ho age 4
Oscar Mina age 1
Krešimir Zubak age 12
Antero Flores Aráoz age 17
Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu age 1
Patrick J. Hurley age 76
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 65
Hu Zongnan age 63
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 74
George M. Humphrey age 69
Charles Clarke age 9
Duncan Sandys age 51
Henry H. Fowler age 51
Hugh Shelton age 17
William French Smith age 42
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 47
Peter Schoomaker age 13
James C. McConville age 9 months
William S. Sessions age 29
Louis Freeh age 9
Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani age 7
Salman II of Bahrain age 65
Nita Barrow age 43
Yem Sambaur age 46
Ung Huot age 14
Chhean Vam age 43
Sim Var age 53
Sisowath Watchayavong age 68
Norodom Kantol age 39
Nhiek Tioulong age 51
Nagoum Yamassoum age 5
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 31
Évariste Kimba age 33
Léonard Mulamba age 31
Osborne Riviere age 27
Andrés F. Córdova age 67
Antonio Pons age 62
Mamdouh Salem age 41
Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan age 13
Obed Dlamini age 22
Mabandla Dlamini age 29
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 47
George Brizan age 17
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 47
Daniel Fignolé age 46
Jean-Michel Lapin age 9
Robert Malval age 16
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq age 38
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali age 56
Pascal Affi N'Guessan age 6
Clifford Campbell age 67
Florizel Glasspole age 50
Suleiman al-Nabulsi age 51
Jumabek Ibraimov age 15
Nasirdin Isanov age 16
Adolph Bowler age 70
Abdallah El-Yafi age 58
Amin al-Hafez age 33
Hae Phoofolo age 12
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny age 21
Ruben Zackhras age 12
Serafim Urechean age 9
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall age 73
Jack Marshall age 47
Francisco Urcuyo age 44
Lorenzo Guerrero age 59
Boukary Adji age 20
Francisco Cunha Leal age 71
Bernard Kolélas age 26
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 18
Arnhim Eustace age 15
Mamadou Lamine Loum age 7
Žarko Korać age 12
Milan Čič age 27
Viktor Avbelj age 45
John Lapli age 4
Francis Billy Hilly age 11
Bartholomew Ulufa'alu age 19
Damião Vaz d'Almeida age 8
Manuel Quintas de Almeida age 2
Lee Huan age 42
Tang Fei age 27
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 8
Suriya Jungrungreangkit age 5
Tu'i Pelehake age 37
Baron Vaea age 38
Tahar Ben Ammar age 70
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 58
Washington Beltrán age 45
Benito Nardone age 53
Josias Moli age 5
Jean-Marie Léyé age 27
Ahmed al-Rahawi age 9
Muhammad Abdi Yusuf age 18
Kamil Idris age 5
Italo Righi age 6 months
Živko Radišić age 22
Luis Alberto Sánchez age 59
Kodjo Agbéyomé age 5
Abdessalam Jalloud age 15
Fu Zuoyi age 64
Henri Navarre age 61
David Waddington age 30
Benjamin Civiletti age 24
Arthur W. Radford age 63
Jeffrey A. Rosen age 1
Joseph W. Barr age 41
Neil H. McElroy age 55
Manny Shinwell age 75
John A. Wickham Jr. age 31
Khosrov Harutyunyan age 11
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 66
Bill McKell age 68
Fuad Guliyev age 18
Firuz Mustafayev age 26
Grantley Herbert Adams age 61
Pierre Ngendandumwe age 29
Oum Cheang Sun age 59
Hang Thun Hak age 35